Art-embroidery needle-book and skein-holder.



No. 674,307. Patented May l4, l90 l.

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ART EMBROIDERY NEEDLE BOOK AND SKEIN HULDER.

(Application filed. Mar. 28, 1900.1

(No Model.)

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MAE PHILLIPS QUINN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

ART-EMBROIDERY NEEDLE-BOOK AND SKElN-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 674,307, dated May '14, 1901. Application filed March 23, 1900. Serial to; 9.902. (No model.)

To ntZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MAE PHILLIPS QUINN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ohicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Art-Embroidery Needle-Book and skein-Holder, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to art-embroidery,and is an art-e1nbroidery needle-book and skeinholder; and the object of my invention is to furnish a practical, convenient, and economical portfolio for keeping and holding embroidery silks and threads. I attain this object by means of the devices illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a View of the book open and showing the rear side of one leaf and the front side of another. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section through the page. Fig. 3 illustrates my record of shadings, said record bearing indentifying color descriptions corresponding to pages in the book, to which color descriptions the artist or user may refer. It contains information supplemental and additional to that given by the pages.

I provide my art-embroidery needle-book A with pages 0 and B, sufficient in number to exhibit the different colors and shades desired. The pages may be of paper, wood, cardboard, celluloid, or any material; but I prefer a quality of stiff but pliable paper, and the size of the sheet may also vary; but I use a sheet about twelve inches by fourteen inches in size. The sheet being ready, I insert eyelets D and E therein, two in the upper part of the sheet or page and one hole F below the others for receiving the skeins of embroidery-silk. The relative distances of the eyeleted holes may vary; but I prefer the upper holes about three inches apart and the lower hole about nine inches below the upper holes. The silk is arranged as follows: After the skein Ghas been cut at the knot it is taken through the upper holes, and the threads of both ends 9 and g are assembled on the opposite side of the page and taken through the lower hole F, so that all the ends of all the threads are presented in a dependent cluster below and depending from the lower hole F. With this arrangement the operator seizes a thread of the skein and draws it from the others without disturbing the mass of silken strands, which retain their position while the single strand is drawn from the skein without entanglement.

The eyelets in the holes are not necessary to the device, but are an advantage in presenting a smooth orifice to the skein and threads. These holes are not slitted nor broken, but are preferably circular and usually eyeleted holes directly through the sheet and always entirely surrounded and walled in by the sheet. The circular shape of the holes as well as their smooth eyeleted walls prevent the thread from fraying, and while sufficient tension on the skein to resist the pull of withdrawal of a thread therefrom is secured by my method of adjusting it in three holes the circular shape and eyeleted walls thereof prevent injury to the individual thread while being withdrawn.

If the leaf or page is large enough, each may contain two or a plurality of sets of holes and hold two or more sets of skeins, as in each page of Fig. 1.

Another new and distinctive feature of the page and also of the book is the needle-holder H, attached in a convenient part to each leaf. This enables embroidery-workers to employ a needle for each shade of color and affordsa convenient point of attachment for the needle when not in use, as it can be inserted in the needle-holder H on the page with silk of its own color. This attached needle-holder is not a book with lid or cover, as any such lid or obstruction would interfere with its use;

but it is a small piece of cloth, preferably white flannel or other retaining substance, attached by mucilage or otherwise to the sheet, and in which the threaded needle when inserted will be adjacent to the skein and will be open to the view and will expose the color or shading of the thread in the needle to. the glance and to comparison with the skein lying near it against the page. Thus besides affording a convenient point of attachment for the threaded needle when not in use the needle-holder on the same page secures the identity of the threaded needle with the color of the skein on that page, which is important where the silks vary but slightly in shade or tone. I

Another and important feature is the record of shadings, whichmay be attached to the book or used with it in any Way and which while it may be arranged like a common bookindex differs from such index in that it refers to manufacturers name and number or identifying-mark K of the shade or color to be found on the page indicated and may be referred to inversely from the common use of an index. Thus Where the Worker exhausts a color on reference from the page to the record of shadings the number and shade to be supplied are shown. I prefer to place the record of shading at the first or last of the book, Where it can be readily referred to for in formation supplemental to that given by the individual skein-page of the book.

The page having a set of skein-holes may be used alone, if desired, or alone with the needle-holder without the book; but it is ap parent that the entire book of shades and tones affords the needle-work artist a complete palette of colors for her design, and it is also apparent that while it can be used without the index I the latter is an important and coacting feature in the complete artists colorbook.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. As a new article of manufacture a threadsupport composed of a sheet of paper, cardboard, celluloid or other material having a set of three solid-walled holes directly through the sheet arranged, one below two others in the sheet, and a skein of silk or thread rove through the holes,the bight or loop of the skein being supported in two holes and both its ends being presented through the remaining hole, substantially as described and shown.

2. A skein card or sheet, said card or sheet having a plurality of circular solid-walled perforations through the sheet,through which thread is rove to give the skein tension to resist the drawing from it of individual threads, and a single circular solid-Walled perforation through the sheet through which all the thread ends of both ends of the skein are assembled and presented to the user.

3. An art-embroidery book having a pinrality of leaves for the support and display on separate pages of variegated silks or threads, a perforable cloth tab or other similar retaining substance on each leaf open and adjacent to the silk and adapted to receive and display, beside the skein of silk, the threaded needle of its shade or tone substantially as described and shown.

4.. The combination in an art-embroidery book, of a plurality of the leaves for the support and display of variegated shades of thread on separate pages, a table of shadings connecting the pages with descriptive matter, and an exposed tab of cloth or retaining material attached to the pages as an attachment'point for fastening the embroidery-needle when not in use.

5. In an art-embroidery bool ,a color-palette for needlework-artists; said palette comprising a plurality of leaves supporting and dis playing shades or colors on separate pages, and a table of shadings connecting the pages with descriptive matter, substantially as described and shown.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MAE PHILLIPS QUINN.

\Vitnesses:

A. R. SEXTON, O. M. KENEFIOK. 

